Selwyn Duke: Nullification

 Today at the American Thinker Selwyn Duke has a useful piece entitled The Fight That Lies Between Status Quo and Secession that points the way for conservatives to resist the Leftist take over of the country. I s there a solution short of simply seceding? While Duke doesn't take up the issue, many other have, and they concluded that secession would not work. The nature of our disagreements are philosophical. The people we work with, our neighbors may be among those who disagree with us. It would be impossible to define separate areas for leftists to live in one area, and for conservatives to live in another. Instead, what Duke points to is nullification.

The cure of nullification is the obvious next step for anyone serious about combating the burgeoning leftist tyranny. We’ve no other recourse. “As Jefferson warned, if the federal government is allowed to hold a monopoly on determining the extent of its own powers, we have no right to be surprised when it keeps discovering new ones,” wrote author Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Under this scenario, the federal government “will continue to grow – regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power,” he continued.

Suke sets the table by defining the situation as we find it on the ground:

With a stolen election, stolen culture, stolen courts and stolen dreams, many Americans are realizing that rule by the Left, absolutely corrupt even without absolute power, is unthinkable. Talk of secession, something continually entertained in various states throughout history, is again in the air. The problem is that for the most part, we’ve been supinely submissive in the face of burgeoning leftist tyranny. So it would help if there were something between secession and our current slouching toward servitude. And there is.

Too many conservatives are also waxing defeatist, saying “The republic is dead; our freedoms are gone.” And, yes, if we continue operating inside the box and being “conservative” — as in status-quo oriented — we can kiss our (remaining) liberties goodbye. But the left isn’t constrained by any box, except what’s physically and politically possible; it doesn’t abide by rules, laws, social codes or conventions except when convenient. So why should we remain in any box except that which is divinely ordained?

Embracing Mao’s sentiment that “[p]olitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” the left trades in violence, violence done to political opponents and to our culture, history, heroes, Constitution and just liberties. Now having seized power in government’s executive and legislative branches via the violence of electoral theft, the left aims to use that power to become autocratic.

As to how we should respond, remember: Only power negates power.

We should recognize the last proposition, for it mirrors our own "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." Indeed it is a generalization of that statement. Only power can negate power, only force can negate force. But where will we find the power to confront the Federal power? Selwyn Duke answers that question too.

The left has been able to steal a national election (and some down-ballot seats, no doubt) via massive vote fraud in, largely, a handful of big Democrat-run cities. Yet despite all the electoral theft, President Trump still won half the states, some by wide margins. It is these states where power should be exercised.

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This said, we have seen some pushback, with county sheriffs in recent times refusing to enforce irrational China virus restrictions and some opposition to anti-Second Amendment proposals. But this effort must become widespread and organized — “Nullification!” must become a rallying cry.

To this end, we need a nullification movement. When state officials, from governor to assemblymen and senators, run for office, the first and last question must be: Will you vow to nullify all unjust federal dictates? If they hem and haw at all, they must be immediately disqualified.

In addition, nullification-disposed states should make a compact with one another so that we can enjoy the strength numbers bring.

Who knows, maybe our Governor, Gov Mini Cuomo Cooper could be convinced to buck some of the Democrat policies if he wants to achieve higher office (cough) president (cough). We have a Republican majority in the legislature. Who knows, this might work.